[albrewer]

> I spend a lot of time defending the fart noises rather than firing the missiles

My experience with it is that there is learning cliff to scale, rather than a gradual on-ramp like Python. The people complaining about the fart noises are complaining the cliff is too hard.

From my perspective near the bottom of the cliff, the people that grok the language tend to churn out things with a speed and quality I don't see elsewhere.